That sounds at least interesting, but with just Wifi it's pretty useless for me. Everywhere, where I have Wifi im not bound to a small form factor and can use my Laptop. Probably other people have other use cases. But that's what applies to me.

Here was discussion about building our own device but according discussion looks like it would be too hard and too expensive.
Purism is going to create their own mobile device! https://puri.sm/surveys/librem-phone...minary-survey/
There is survey where you can tell what hardware and specifications you'd like to see in a phone.

I just asked the guys in #purism about this, and they claim it will run their PureOS with some kind of Gnome UI...

I really want a project like this phone to succeed, but the hardware will be difficult enough without trying to make an operating system too. Making a GNU/Linux system for a phone seems conceptually easy enough, but in practice it's really hard. If they're serious they will use Sailfish, at least to start with, otherwise I fear this will just end up on the pile of failed Linux phones.

I really want a project like this phone to succeed, but the hardware will be difficult enough without trying to make an operating system too. Making a GNU/Linux system for a phone seems conceptually easy enough, but in practice it's really hard. If they're serious they will use Sailfish, at least to start with, otherwise I fear this will just end up on the pile of failed Linux phones.

SailfishOS isn't free enough for them, so I doubt they will choose that.

Plasma Mobile is close enough to a Sailfish stack anyway but with a free UI, so perhaps that's what they will package into their own distro.